Respect the Process
Director John Grammatico returns to the podcast. This time to stress story.
Beer Store Makes a Splash
John’s multi-spot sing-a-long for Canada’s The Beer Store is featured in Adweek, Little Black Book, BestAds, The Drum and many others. Click below to watch.
ManoMano Wins Grand Prix
John’s campaign for French online retailer ManoMano is awarded Grand Prize at the Paris Strategies Festival. Click HERE to watch the English versions or the button below to see the originals on John’s French-only showreel.
Ad Age’s Top 5
AT&T’s “Just OK is not OK” campaign makes Ad Age Creativity’s Top 5 and Adweek’s “Ad of the Day”. Click the image above to read some press or the button below to watch several of John’s spots for this fully-integrated, multi-agency effort.
Revenge
Best-selling book on the royal power couple touches on John’s several shoots with Meghan Markle, referring to him as “a director known as a professional without an ego”.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair Magazine calls John’s latest ad with Meghan Markle “perfect” in their segment of In the Limelight. Click the image above to read the article or the button below to watch the spot.
Web Interview
John chats with production veteran and Executive Producer/Owner of Indiana Productions, Karim Bartoletti, about the state of our industry during and after the impact of Covid19 in episode 66 of the “Anti Virus Pills from Lockdown” Web Series. Click the image above to watch the full interview. (57 min)
Shots & LBB cover Just Eat
John’s campaign for Leo Burnett to launch food delivery client, JustEat, in North America is featured in SHOTS and Little Black Book. Click below to enjoy some hilarious out-takes from the shoot.
Zaxby’s Wins Best in Show
John’s celebrity campaign for restaurant franchise, Zaxby’s, wins Best-in-Show at the Addy Awards. Click below to watch some of the spots that have featured everyone from Amy Sedaris to Calvin Johnson.
Budweiser Super Bowl LIV
Variety honors it as “Best of the Super Bowl”, MAXIM names it a Super Bowl Top 10. ESPN ranks it in the Top 6. SHOTS calls it “a gem” and Adweek makes it their “Ad of the Day”. Click the image above to read LBB Online’s review of John’s modern homage to a beloved Budweiser classic.
Lay’s Super Bowl Promo
John directs (and voice-acts with) Anna Faris in Lay’s new “Flavor Swap” Super Bowl campaign where fans vote which new flavors stay and which classics go. Click below to watch the spots that have reached over 8 million hits on YouTube.
Meghan Markle for Reitmans
John partners with Tank and Meghan Markle to launch the rebranding of Canada’s largest clothing retailer. Click below for a look Behind The Scenes of their first shoot together.
Rethink Breast Cancer Wins Webby, TED & More
John’s “Your Man Reminder” PSA for Rethink Breast Cancer and Toronto agency, John St. wins 1st place at TED’s Ideas Worth Spreading, a Webby Award and is featured on The Dr. Oz Show, logging over 7 million hits on YouTube. Click below to watch the spot.
T.I.M. is an Official Selection of Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival
SHOTS Magazine calls John’s new short film “touching, nuanced and wistful”, while Little Black Book and Branding News label it “haunting”. Click the image above to read the SHOTS review or the button below to see what 2 million viewers are saying on YouTube. VFX by The Mill.
Respect the Process
Jordan Brady interviews John for his filmmaking podcast, “RESPECT THE PROCESS”. Click the button below to listen to the full interview.
BBDO Director’s Lounge
John is one of six featured directors chosen to speak on a panel at the 49th Director’s Lounge hosted by BBDO in Hamburg, Germany. Click below to see some pics from the event.
Canal Comedie makes Ad Age Creativity’s Editor’s Pick
Working in collaboration with creative powerhouse, Buzzman Paris, John directed the three-spot campaign that teaches us to laugh today and “be depressed later”. Click the article to read some press or the button below to jump to the spots.